Pure Comments and the Fediverse

I recently wrote about Privacy and Webmentions to make the case — mostly to myself — for adding Fediverse integration to Pure Comments. A few people pushed back in the comments, but my position could generally be summarised with "if it's a public post, it's fair game." Then this morning I read this post by Manu and it's completely changed my opinion. Having now read the Webmention spec it never presents Webmentions as being "comments". At all times they're referred to as "notifications". More specifically: A Webmention is a notification that one URL links to another. For example, Alice writes an interesting post on her blog. Bob then writes a response to her post on his own site, linking back to Alice's original post. Bob's publishing software sends a Webmention to Alice notifying that her article was replied to, and Alice's software can show that reply as a comment on the original post. The Webmention spec That's not what I implemented in Pure Comments. So what's the plan? My plan is…